House for a young couple in Tokyo Photographs

House for a young couple in Tokyo description

In a suburb of Tokyo where architecture is seen as “a landscape comprised of a repetition of nothing but ready-built houses that continue endlessly”, this house inverts the outside world onto the building’s interior inserting a microcosm of nature into the deeply artificial environment of the city.

The exterior has a cuboid geometry with linear rows of glazing, revealing glimpses of the unusual residential arrangement. The facade is understated to the point of anonymity and is treated as an exercise of abstract compositional work. Its minimal ornamentation divided by contrasting open and closed panels almost perfectly camouflaged into its mundane urban surroundings

On the interior, however, a miniature forest grows in the corner of the dwelling, developing an organic playground for its inhabitants. The double-height volume carefully manipulates regular, everyday experiences. A curving line of soil makes it mark on the floor of the living room, as if quietly invading the man-made structure.

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